Four generals of Xiang Army: Zeng Guofan, Zuo, Hu Linyi and. Introduction: Zeng Guofan, commander-in-chief of Xiang Army. Establish the Xiang army, destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and lead the Westernization Movement. Zuo was an important minister in the late Qing Dynasty and a national hero who once recovered Xinjiang. General of Xiang Army Yangtze River Navy. 1853, Zeng Guofan helped to establish the Xiang navy, and later took charge of the navy, bought foreign guns and made big ships. In his spare time in the army, Peng Yulin also painted and wrote poems to draw plums. Hu Linyi is both civil and military, capable of poetry and writing, honest and honest, and attaches importance to education. After summing up the experience of war, he compiled The Art of War by Hu. Later Chiang Kai-shek especially praised Hu Linyi's military talents, and incorporated Zeng Guofan's and Hu Linyi's methods of running the army into Zeng Hu's Art of War, which is a compulsory textbook for students of Whampoa Military Academy.